MASTER PLAN

Our Local Hero, A National Icon

The Philip Simmons Children's Garden serves as a place where children and adults can come to a place of honor, beauty, and new life and witness the power of community revitalization. Some of the features of the garden will include various sizes of inscribed commemorative bricks, stones, bronze plaques, signature gates, a wrought iron corporate trellis, stone inscribed benches, a “TC Drayton Water Wall" and Walk of Love, a bust and two life-size bronze sculptures (statues).

One statue is Mr. Philip Simmons, the artisan and the other is a statue depicting ultimate service-Jesus Christ. The purpose of the Philip Simmons Children’s Garden is fourfold:

• We want to facilitate the change of the image of Charleston’s Eastside Community, which is often inaccurately viewed as being unsafe and threatening;
  
  
• We want to also educate people on who Mr. Philip Simmons is…Our Local Hero - A National Icon;
  
  
• We want to instruct, train and offer scholarships for “elementary school children” in a hortorocultural experience; and
  
  
• We want to augment the “tourism” population of the City of Charleston.

Our community is proud to honor Mr. Simmons and its children with this garden.

Many thanks to the Garden's media sponsor, WCSC-TV, Channel Five, and its general manager, Rita Scott.